Coolio and his manager are accused of defrauding a South American promoter and former manager out of several thousand dollars.
After agreeing to the terms of a four-date tour in South America and then requesting a schedule change, Coolio
and manager Jarel Posey apparently received and cashed a deposit while
failing to follow through with the terms of the tour agreement initiated
by former manager Blair “Goast” Bryson and the owner of a promotion
company called TGP Media in Chile.
HipHopDX has obtained copies of
deposits made to Coolio and proof of paid airfare (some of which are
below), as the owner of the promotion company and the rapper’s former
manager claim that the “Gangsta’s Paradise” emcee and Jarel Posey have
failed to follow through with their end of the deal.
“We were in contact with a company
called Goast Entertainment LLC, which is Blair Bryson’s company,” the
owner of TGP Media said in an exclusive statement to HipHopDX. “He is
someone who also performs with Coolio or has performed with him up to
this point...There’s another person involved named Jarel Posey, who is
Coolio’s direct manager whom we never had contact with up until this
point now. He’s a sax player for Coolio on stage. So what we did, we
booked four shows through Blair Bryson originally in September...Three
dates in Chile and another date in Buenos Aires, Argentina. If this
would have happened, it would have been the first time Coolio’s ever
presented himself in South America.
“We had to reschedule the dates from
information we got from Blair that he had received from Coolio and his
manager that Coolio had lost his temporary passport and he wasn’t gonna
have it in time to travel,” he added. “So we switched the dates to
November 6, 7, 8, and 9. At which point we all hopped on Skype and got
all the details: me, Blair, and Coolio, all three of us on Skype.”
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